After doing more research: http://wiki.bluez.org/wiki/HOWTO/AudioDevices it seems to be the case that Skype expects a sampling rate of 44800. However the default which is used by my device is 100000. This explains why the pitch drops that much when listening to the recording I made using Skype test call. I tried converting sample rate: pcm.rate_convert { type plug slave { pcm "hw:0,2" rate 48000 } hint { show on description "Motorola S9 Bluetooth headset with conversion" } } aplay -L and arecord -L do list it. I can record using arecord -D rate_convert. However when not specifying it still defaults to 100000Hz The real issue is that Skype doesn't even shvow rate_convert. How should I proceed? Write a small dll hijacking alsa lib calls forcing usage of my pcm device? Is there already another solution (dowgrade to older Skype ?) Marc Weber ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user